Fair game: The chairman of the Republican National Committee insisted Hillary Clinton’s health and age are fair targets for questioning if she gets into the 2016 presidential contest. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said he knows the issue of Clinton’s health “is going to come up, as it does for any person running for president.” Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Priebus said health and fitness were questions for Ronald Reagan and John McCain, and such questions are “fair game” about Clinton.

President O’Malley? How about a President Patrick? The Washington Post takes a look at some big names in Democratic politics just in case Clinton decides not to run for president. That’s Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, for one example, and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, for those who didn’t recognize their names. But the Post still puts the former secretary of state in the “first tier” and says “This requires no explanation.”

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers says enough is enough. The chief of the giant networking company has asked President Barack Obama to intervene to curtail the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Re/code reports Chambers asked Obama in a letter dated May 15 to create “new standards of conduct” about how the NSA carries out spying operations around the world. The letter follows new revelations in a book based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden alleging the NSA intercepted equipment from Cisco and loaded it with spy software.

Toxic mix: Budget expert Stan Collender writes in Forbes that the federal budget debate will take a turn for the worse if House Majority Leader Eric Cantor becomes House speaker next year. Why? Blame the tea party. “It’s hard to see how [Cantor] will be able to negotiate a compromise on spending, taxes, deficits and debt given the message the tea party is sending him with this year’s primary challenge,” Collender writes.

In Kentucky, meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell looks set to defeat his own challenge from the right in a Tuesday primary. As The Wall Street Journal writes, the Tuesday primary in Kentucky, along with others in Georgia, Idaho and Oregon, represents the most important moment on the 2014 calendar to date in the tug of war between GOP leaders and conservative activists. A McConnell victory over businessman Matt Bevin would send a resounding signal to Republicans elsewhere.

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